HAMILTON'S PROGRESS.

Auckland Star, Volume LV, Issue 220, 16 September 1924, Page 8

HAMILTON'S PROGRESS.

\ * - THE BUILDING BOOM. 3 ' CURRENT SWINGS SOUTHWARDS. OVER'£IOO,OOO AROUND ONE AREA. [Tiy Telegraph.—Own Con-esponacur.f rs HAMILTON,-this day. Considerable building progress is still "o- being made in Hamilton. In every UC direction shops and houses are going up, I all of a good stamp. The new business premises at present in course of construction are mostly of an expensive ill nature and of thoroughly modern design. ii[ The appearance of the town is changing rapidly and particularly that of Victoria Street, the main thoroughfare, where *" handsome new buildings are steadily Is, replacing the older wooden ones. The se square type of structure, with snspenre sion verandahs and low windows seems d, to be the favourite style, and where in actual new buildings are not going up 10, shop fronts are being modernised, ac While north of the railway line, teas wards Frankton, a good deal of buildx- ing is still going on, the current seems, es during the past few months, to have id swung southwards below Collingwood ut Street. At the corner of Collingwood lis and Victoria Streets the Wesley Trust is putting up a four-storeyed block, to cost £40,000, while almost opposite, the Waikato "Times" Company has just ill completed new offices at a cost of somr*ofl thing like £17.000. A little further st down the road Messrs. Grocott and n- Wycherley have called tenders for a id small new block to cost somewhere in 0, the vicinity of £7000 or £8000. On to sections below Hood Street, which have x- lain idle until the present day, Mr. Ie McLean has put up a £4000 block of conto crete shops, and is prepared to raise on )0 this a second storey of offices for legal of or other work as soon as the new 0, Supreme Court buildings, which are to n. be erected just below the Anglican id Church, are completed, and which are to n- cost over £20.000. Oppbsite on the other ir corner of Knox Street Mr. Wycher-l-k ley lias put up three shops at a cost of s, £3000, while below again facing the 2 Town Hall, Mr. Lichtenstein ha 3 ie erected three commodious business places -c at a cost of approximately £4000. In ts Hood Street a large garage, 120 ft by le 07ft, under a single span roof, is at le present in course of construction for I; Mr. Seifert. The cost of this will he )f about £4000, while across the road Mr. ic Carrick Nisbet is putting up a battery '2 depot to cost £1500. A six-storey n) block of flats, facing the river near the ,d Theatre Royal, is on the way. at an 10 estimated cost of £15,000, while the 0, Hamilton Hotel additions, which will 10 - provide another 45 rooms, are well in •; | hand. A certain oil companv'has land c in Collingwood Street, which.' until now ~ has been lying idle and on this a two- , e storeyed building is to go up. Other •c business premises are also in contempla- ° J, 10 , 1 ?. In the s *l uare formed by Victoria n Collingwood, Anglesea and Hood Streets. „, It must be gratifying to property owners x and business people in this area to find , c that nfter lying idle for so long, a snbis stantial building boom should now have [ c set in.